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Granite in sentence

174 examples of Granite in a sentence

It's the erosion of granite rock.
The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite, out of a lump of rock.
In this photo, everything looks very finished, but that granite edge, those lights, the back on that bench, the trees in planting, and the many different kinds of places to sit were all little battles that turned this project into a place that people wanted to be.
Carved in unyielding granite, America’s Mt.
You can't have a fossil in an igneous rock formed by magma, like a granite, or in a metamorphic rock that's been heated and squeezed.
He saw rising from the dense rainforest foliage this incredible interlocking maze of structures built of granite, beautifully put together.
But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite.
I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite.
Most climbers take three to five days to ascend the 3,000 feet of vertical granite.
When we reject granite and limestone and sandstone and wood and copper and terra-cotta and brick and wattle and plaster, we simplify architecture and we impoverish cities.
Rocks like granite are full of crystals, but none have recognizable shapes.
It reminds me of the granite sculptures of our Mt.
maybe if some of the actors were not so perfectly chiselled out of granite it would have made the film a little better too..
In a way, it's a tombstone of granite and pumice, still steaming and hot despite more than two decades of slumber.
I wouldn't spend the two hours of viewing time to sit through this again because it seem's to have been directed by someone with the emotions of granite.
In the case of Johnny Hallyday, it is perhaps not too farfetched to believe that this man of sphinx-like mystery is now, like Baudelaire, “a block of granite surrounded by vague fear” whose “fierce nature sings only to the rays of the setting sun.”
In the short time since the decision to elevate Gauck to the presidency, the granite beneath Merkel’s feet has become political quicksand.
And were we not right, at the time, to ignore those who told us that the dissidents were a minority who would never, ever, prevail against the granite ideology of communism?
Two better-known memorials in Moscow and St. Petersburg consist of granite stones taken from Solovki.
Thousands of miles from the bloody fields of France, 26 young New Zealanders who died there are remembered on a granite cross.
On a granite block, part of the front of an office building, was the shadow of a human being, indelibly etched there by the crystallization of the surrounding rock as he or she was, in an instant, incinerated.
Some think that this point has already been reached, with Iran placing its enriched uranium underground, near the holy city of Qom, beneath many layers of granite – and thus beyond the destructive power of anything short of a nuclear bomb.
Goods taxed at high rates (for example, polished granite) are sold as goods taxed at lower rates (for example, as unpolished granite).
The bribe paid to the excise tax collector for a favorable classification, the difference between the value of polished and unpolished granite, and the under-reporting of true revenues create "black" funds, which cannot be declared on income-tax returns.
A wall of superb rocks stood before us, imposing in its sheer mass: a pile of gigantic stone blocks, an enormous granite cliffside pitted with dark caves but not offering a single gradient we could climb up.
The soil was almost entirely madreporic, but certain dry stream beds were strewn with granite rubble, proving that this island was of primordial origin.
I distinguished the unpredictably contoured springings of a vault, supported by natural pillars firmly based on a granite foundation, like the weighty columns of Tuscan architecture.
Its mass of filaments attached it to a table of granite, and there it grew by itself in the midst of the cave's calm waters.
Through the lounge window I could see only its granite bedrock.
Some of these wrecked ships had perished in collisions, others from hitting granite reefs.
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